JVP’s leaders claim
to be the “Jewish wing of the Palestinian solidarity movement” and
define their goal as “driving a wedge” within the American Jewish
community regarding Israel.

JVP is an integral part in the anti-Israel BDS campaign and provides a
façade of Jewish support for efforts such as the Presbyterian Church’s
divestment vote. During the war in Gaza, JVP organized or participated
in scores of anti-Israel street protests, and took credit for invading
and occupying the offices of numerous Jewish federations in the U.S.

As NGO Monitor’s detailed research
shows, JVP provides no evidence for its claims of 100,000 followers.
Further, JVP is able to gain visibility, including in this article,
through an annual budget of $1.15 million, but the source of most of
this money is carefully hidden. It seems the group’s leaders recognize
that revelation of their donors will impeach the credibility they seek
to project.

Yitzhak Santis

Chief Programs Officer

NGO Monitor

Apparently Jewish Voice for Peace and assorted anti-Israel agitprop groups have also claimed that the St. Louis County police chief received
training in counter-terrorism measures in Israel . Indeed, in 2011, the police chief at the time Timothy Fitch went to Israel as part of an ADL sponsored counter-terrorism group. Fitch is currently retired, and there is no evidence that Jon Belmer, the current chief of police has been to Israel at all.